Transcontinental Railroad

Operation

American History Museum

Standard Time

Freight

UPRR Bill of Landing

UPRR Bill of Landing

UPRR Bill, 1884

UPRR Bill, 1884

UPRR Stock killed, 1887

UPRR Stock killed, 1887

UPRR Livestock Bill of Landing, 1891

UPRR Livestock Bill of Landing, 1891

UPRR freight rates, 1869

UPRR freight rates, 1869

Tourism

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Union Pacific Railroad

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Union Pacific Railroad (click cover to see inside)

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Central Pacific Railroad

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Central Pacific Railroad (click cover to see inside)

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Salt Lake City

Nelsons Pictorial Guide Book, Salt Lake City (click cover to see inside)

Telegraphy

Western Union completed the first Transcontinental telegraph in 1861, and the telegraph was essential for the Transcontinental Railroad as well. A telegraph message signalled the completion of the line, and would serve to coordinate train schedules and railroad operations in the decades to come.

Central Pacific Telegraph Key

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Central Pacific Telegraph Key

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Telegraph cross arm with ramshorn insulators

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Telegraph cross arm with ramshorn insulators, found near the Great Salt Lake

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The robber barons the great American capitalists, 1861-1901

[Trade catalogs from Indiana Foundry Co.]

[Trade catalogs from Lake Superior Corp.]

[Trade catalogs from Turl Iron & Car Co. Inc.]

lamp, gauge, c. 1880

[Trade catalogs from Economy Devices Corp.]

History of Mack rail motor cars and locomotives / editor, Randolph L. Kulp ; contributors, Clinton T. Andrews . . . [et al.]

Voices of Rondo oral histories of Saint Paul's historic Black community as told to Kateleen Jill Hope Cavett ; foreword by David Vassar Taylor

General information regarding the Hot Springs of Arkansas : legends and history, the reservation, the city of Hot Springs, the pay bathhouses, the Army and Navy General Hospital, the government free baths, the character and action of the waters, physicians, railroads

The story of the Rochester & Sodus Bay Railway. Co., 1889-1929, the Royal Blue Line, 1901-1929 ..

One hundred twenty four cars in service

The Fair of the Iron Horse : Baltimore and Ohio Centenary Exhibition and Pageant, 1827-1927

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Post, circular motif

Scarf, Flight Attendant, Transcontinental and Western Air

Erie railway tourist

Western agriculture and the Burlington / prepared by the Agricultural Development Department of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company

The American railroad passenger car : [book reviews]

Driving of the Golden Spike, (painting)

Switch Engine, Erie Railroad, (painting)

Les chemins de fer

Nostoc muscorum

Northern mono-rail track and switch systems... Bulletin no. 545B

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Footed bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Bowl (Image withheld, pending review)

Indianland and wonderland : once roamed by the savage Indian and the shaggy buffalo, now dotted by ranches, towns and cities and cropped by countless flocks and herds : a region of wonderful phenomena, reached by the Northern Pacific Railroad / by Olin D. Wheeler

Pycnothelia papillaria (Ehrh.) Dufour

Locomotive Number Plate, Union Pacific 809

Henry Flagler, (sculpture)

The lands of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California, with general information on the resources of Southern California. Jerome Madden, land agent

safety valve

Railroad Transportation Building [art work] / (photographed by Peter A. Juley & Son)

Seaboard year book

Personal history and reminiscences with personal opinions on contemporary events, 1845-1921

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